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UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFIGE.

HENRY CLARKE AND THOMAS MAWBY, OF LEICESTER, ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR MAKING LACE HOSIERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,767, dated November22,1892. Application filed March 21, 1889. Serial No. 304,201. (Nomodel.) Patented in England April 27, 1888. No. 6,277.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY CLARKE, foreman, and THOMAS MAWBY,hosiery-manufacturer, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, and bothresidents of Leicester, England, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Machines for Making Lace Hosiery, (for which we haveobtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 6,277, bearing date April 27,1888,) of which the following is aspecification, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to the manufacture of goods or articles comprisedunder the term lace hosiery; and its main objectis to provide a machinewhich will operate automatically to produce such articles in anefficient and expeditious manner and by which we are enabled to dispensein a great measure with hand-labor in the manufacture of lace hosiery.

Our improved machine comprises means for forming the lacepattern by thetaking of loops off one or more of the needles and plac-' ing the saidloops upon adjacent needles in such a manner that holes will be left inthe manufactured article where necessary for the formation of thedesired pattern. For this purpose we employnarrowing machine-points,which effect such transfer of the loops and which we will hereinafterterm lace -points; and we combine with these points and with the otherparts of the machine Jacquard mechanism,which will select the points tobe operated for thus tranferring the loops and thereby regulate ordetermine the pattern to be produced. We also provide suitable means forimparting lateral reciprocating motion to the lace-points for thepurpose of transferring the loops.

Our said invention, moreover, comprises other improvements hereinafterdescribed.

In the accompanying drawings we have shown how our said invention may beconveniently and advantageously carried into practice. Figures 1 and 2show a front elevation of a machine known as a Oottons frame with ourpresent improvements applied thereto, the central portion of the saidmachine being removed. Fig. 3 is an elevation of one end of the saidmachine, and Fig. 4 an elevation of the other end of the same machine,such parts of the said machine as are not necessary to thecorrectunderstanding of the novel features being omitted. Fig. 5 is atransverse section through the narrowing and lace-point bars, taken onthe line as 00,Fig. i. Fig. 6 is a transverse section through thenarrowing and lacepoint bars, taken on the line 00' 00', Fig. 2, alsoshowing the Jacquard cylinder depressing the lacepoints. Fig. 7 is afront elevation of the lace and narrowing apparatus. Figs. 5, 6, and 7are drawn to an enlarged scale.

Fig. 8 is a rear elevation of the chain mechanism (hereinafterdescribed) for putting the lace apparatus into operation. Fig. 9 is atransverse section through the narrowing and lace-point bars, showingthe lace-points out of action. Fig. 10 shows in side and front elevationthe alternate lace-point slides, and Fig. 11 shows in side and frontelevation the intermediate slides. Figs. 12 and 13 are face and edgeviews, respectively, of the Jacquard plates. Figs. 14 and 15 show amodification of our said invention, in which the lace-points are carriedby levers instead of slides. In Fig. 15 the lace-points are shown out ofaction. Fig. 16 is a side elevation of the Jacquard cam. Fig. 17 is adiagram illustrating the manufacture of a lace stocking by ourimprovedmachine. Fig. 18 is an elevation of one of the ratchet-wheels foractuating the Jacquard cylinder. Fig. 9 to 15 are also drawn to anenlarged scale.

Like letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawings.

' In all the figures of the drawings we have shown mainly those partsthat are intended for efiecting the narrowing of the work and theformation of the lace-patterns, and not the parts for producing ordinarycourses of work, as these latter are of the usual construction and theirmanner of working is well understood.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 13, A A are the end standards forming part ofthe frame of the machine. B is the first driving-shaft, which is mountedin bearings B attached to the said standardsA.

(J is a cam-shaft for operating various parts ofthe mechanismhereinafter described. The said cam-shaft is connected by any suitablegearing with the driving-shaft B.

D is the needle-bar shaft; E, the resser-bar shaft; F, the catch-barshaft; G, the catchbar lifting-shaft. All the said shafts D E F G aremounted and driven as in an ordinary vertical-frame knitting-machine bymechanism similar to that described and shown in specification ofBritish Letters Patent No. 3,123 of 1864 and 3,820 of 1868, respectivelygranted to Wiliiam Cotton and to Cotton and Attenborough. This mechanismforms no part of our said invention.

a a are brackets which are firmly attached to the frame of the machine,as shown in Fig. 3, and which support a rod a having mounted thereonother brackets a forming bearings for the narrowing and thelace-pointbars hereinafter described.

I) b are the sets ofnarrowing-points, carried,

, respectively, by narrowing-bars b 12 which r pass through and havetheir bearings in the said brackets a.

Each bar b b is provided with a fork b, which clips or engages with; atongue b firmly attached to or formed with a nut 1), adapted to slide ingrooved bearings formed in fixed brackets 19 Thesaid brackets are firmlysecured to the frame A. 1 Within the nuts I) work screws 19 which rotatein bearings b attached. to the brackets 19*, the

- said screws-being reduced at eachend where resting in the bearings,soas to form shoulders or collars for preventing .endwisemove-l ment.The screws 12 are providedwithhand wheels 19 whereby they may be rotatedby hand to cause the narrowing-pointsb b'in each set to rccede from eachother after the points b b inward whenproducing the nar rowing-courses.

c c are the needle-bars, and-d (1 some ofthe needles carried thereby. 6care the sets of lacepoints, the number of sets of these pointscorresponding with the number of articles which can be simultaneouslyproduced in the machine. The said lace-points e are attached to slidese, which work inygrooves 6 Fig. 7,

formed in the comb-bar 6 e is a covering-plate, which is screwed orotherwise attached to the comb-bar.e and which maintains the said slidesin position. e is a spring-bar also attached to :the face of thecomb-bar and formed withsprings e",

one. for each slide, the said springs being adapted to engage withnotches e ,.formed in the faces or forward edges of the slides in such amanner that the said springs willmain tainthe slides in their raisedpositions until depressed by the action of the Jacquard cylinders, ashereinafter described. The combbars a are firmly attached to bosses efixed on the lace-point barf. This bar has its bearings in the bracketsa, in which itis capable of endwise movement. The said bar is, moreover,provided with collars f, Figs; 1 and 2, which slide freely on the rod athe-said'collars being attached by thumb-screws f or other, suitablemeans to the bar f. By these means the barf is kept in position. Adjustable screw-stops g, Figs. 5 and 6, are also provided, which passthrough brackets g, fixed on the rod a against which the comb-bars erecline, and by means of which-that is to say, by screwing the saidscrews in or out the angle of repose of the said comb-bars may beadjusted.

For effecting the endwise reciprocation of the lace-point bar f thefollowing mechanism is provided-that is to say: On the said barfis fixeda fork f Figs. 2 and 4, in which works an arm h, attached to a block h,arranged to slide in a bracket k firmly attached to the frame of themachine. Moreover, the sliding block h is provided with two pinsh 71which project through longitudinal slots 71, .formed in the-bracket W. Apin or stud t'is formed with orattached to the said bracket 71 andonthis pin, or stud is'mounted a combined ratchet and pattern wheel is.and a bell-crank lever Z0, provided'with apawl or clawker which engageswith the teeth of the saidratchetwheel. 'The lever 70' isoperated in themanner hereinafter described, so as, to intermittently rotate the saidratchet and.patternwheel 7a,,and the periphery ofv thelatter. is

suitably shaped to engage with thepins h h and cause the said pins,andtherefore the block h, to slide or reciprocate in the bracket .hthereby reciprocating the bar fand thev sets of. points .e. Thesaidpattern-wheel maybe so shapedasto reciprocate the barf through adistance .equal to the gage of one or more needles, as the pattern mayrequire. clawker or pawl 10 can be put out of gear with the wheel. is byany suitable means whenit is required not.toreciprocate the saidpoints eas, for example, when the toe of the hoseis being finished withoutlacework.

H are the Jacquard cylinders, which-are mounted on a shaft Z fitted torotate in bearings formed in the ends of arms m. The said arms m arekeyed on a shaft m, which'is carried by links n, pivoted at n to thebrackets a. We provide one Jacquard cylinder for each set of lace-pointse. The surfaces of the said cylinders are formed of longitudinal platesvor lags Z which are fastened by screws or otherwise to end disks Z Zareperforated with suitable holes some of which are filled by means ofplugs, according to the lace-pattern to be produced. The said cylindersZare actuated by the following mechanism-that isto say: On theshaft mare keyed suitable arms 0, which are connected by means of rodsp withlevers q, pivoted atq' to one of thetie-rods of the frameor to any othersuitable. fixed support. The levers q are, moreover, provided at theirinner or forward ends with rollers qiwhich are acted upon by suitablecams g fixed on the cam-shaft C. One of thesecams is shown in Fig. 16..The rods p are made in two parts joined in, such a manner that theirlength-can be adjusted to regulate the height or position of the J ac-The The said. plates quard cylinders. For instance, the two parts areconnected by bolts 19*, passed through holes in one part and throughelongated slots 10 in the other part, as shown in Fig. 3. A bracket r,Figs. 1 and 3, is secured to the frame of the machine and to thisbracket is pivoted a pawl 'r. The said pawl is adapted to engage,whenfree, with a ratchet-wheel r fixed on the J acquard cylinder-shaft Z,each time the latter is raised through the operation of theabovementioned cam (1 and partially rotates the said shaft Z. Anotherpawl r is pivoted to t the bracket r and is adapted to engage withanother ratchet-wheel r Fig.18, also keyed on the shaft Z. This secondpawl operates to rotate the shaft Z in the contrary direction to that inwhich the said shaft is rotated by the pawl 1', but both pawls are neverin gear at the same time, suitable means, hereinafter described, beingprovided for throwing either pawl out of gear with its ratchet-wheelwhen the other pawl is required to act. The slides e that carry thelace-points e are provided at their upper ends with pins or reducedportions Z more clearly shown in Figs. 10 and 11. These pins are smallenough to pass through the perforations Z formed in the plates of theJacquard cylinders 'Z. On the Jacquard cylinder-shaft Z are fixed twodisks or wheels Z Z Figs. 2 and 4. The wheel Z has a plain periphery andthe wheel Z has notches in its periphery, thenumber of the said notchescorresponding to the number of plates or lags Z on the Jacquardcylinders, and to one of the brackets a is attached a spring Z whichbears against the plain disk Z and prevents the turning of the shaft Zthrough too great an angle by eitherof the operating-pawls r Anotherspring Z is fixed on one of the levers m and is provided with awedge-shaped piece Z at its extremity, which fits the notches formed inthe disk Z and acts as a gage to regulate or correct the movement of theJacquard cylin- -ders after each partial rotation thereof when the holesin the plates or lags Z are exactly over the pins Z on the upper ends ofthe lacepoint slides.

The operation of the Jacquard mechanism is as follows, viz: On thedescent of the Jacquard cylinders Z, due to the action of the cams q,with which the rollers g engage, one of the plates or lags Z is broughtover the ends of the pins Z projecting from the slides 6. Should any ofthe open perforations in the said plate or lag then be coincident withthe corresponding pins Z the said perforations will, in the descent ofthe Jacquard cylinders, pass over the said pins, and the correspondingslides will not be depressed. The pins Z which correspond with theclosed perforations will, however, be depressed, and

with them the corresponding slides e and points 6. In the depression ofany slide 6' by the following devices, viz': On the said shaft Z areloosely mounted a series of hangers 8, Figs. 5, 6, and 7, each formedwith a slot .9 near its lower extremity, and through these slots we passa bar 3?, which extends throughout the whole length of the machine. Thesaid bar passes beneath projections e on the upper ends of the slides e,and engages with the said projections when it rises with the shaft Z,thereby lifting all the depressed slides and bringing their notches 6again into engagement with the retaining-springs 6 During the upwardmovement of the shaft Z the ratchet-wheel r encounters the pawl r, andthe shaft Z is rotated, thereby bringing another plate or lag Z oppositethe pins Z The second plate may, if required, have a difierentarrangement of closed holes from the first one. When a continuouspattern is required to be made the pawl r is brought into actionperiodically in the manner hereinafter described, and made to reversethe Jacquard cylinder-shaft Z an amount equal to one, two, three, ormore plates or lags Z as the case may be-that is to say, as many platesor or lags as are required for the production of the pattern, and aftereach reversal the first pawl 0" again comes into action, and the processis repeated in a manner that will be well understood.

For automatically reciprocating the lacepoints a, racking in thenarrowing-bars b 6 and shipping and unshipping the pawls r r thefollowing mechanism is provided-that is to say: t t, Figs. 1 to 4, arelevers pivoted to brackets 25, secured to the standards A. The saidlovers are provided with rollers 29, which rest on and are moved up anddown by cams O, fixed on the cam-shaft O. The said cams O are only inengagement with the said levers when a narrowing orlace course is beingproduced. The said cams C are moved out of gear with the rollers i whenit is desired'to make an ordinary course by shogging or moving the camshaft O endwise, as is well understood. It is this position of thecamshaft that is shown in the drawings. t Z are rods pivoted at t to thelevers t, and provided near their upper ends with rack-teeth t t", Fig.3, is a combined cam and ratchet wheel provided at one end of themachine and which is keyed on a shaft 25 the cam being arranged toengage with one of the rack-rods 25 The shaft t extends the whole lengthof the machine, and another cam i is secured at its other end, this camengaging with the other rackrod Z The said rods t are pressed againstthese cams by means of springs 25 Fig. 3, and i Fig. 4. t is a leveralso pivoted at t to one of the levers t, and to which is pivoted acatch or pawl 75 adapted to engage with a ratchet-wheel formed or fixedon the wheel i The said pawl 25 bears against a stud fixed in the lever79, and is maintained against this stud by the spring 25 Fig. 3.

'u, Figs. 3 and 8, is a shaft mounted in bearings in brackets to, fixedto the end standard A,-the said shaft being caused to oscillate by meansof a cam or eccentric O fixed on the cam-shaft C, which actuates a levera fixed to the said shaft to.

'v is an arm attached to the shaft to and coupled by means of a link '0'with a bellcrank lever v pivoted at c to a bracket '0 fixed to thestandard A, as more clearly shown in Fig. 8.

v is a pawl pivoted to the bell-crank lever v and arranged to actuate aratchet-wheel o and pattern-chain wheel u both of which rotate on thesame pivot 11 as the said bell-crank lever. The said chain wheel isprevented from being jerked too far by the pawl by means of amultiple-armed friction-spring o of the kind ordinarily used forpreventing the overrunning of wheels.

of is a lever pivoted at v on the bracket 0 and coupled by a link o tothe lever 29. The sides ofthe studs or lugs on the pattern-chain next tothe lever Q19 comes in contact with the said lever when a narrowingcourse is required and actuate the said lever and through it the lever29, thereby putting the pawl t in gear with the ratchet-wheel t Theup-anddown movement of the lever 25 then rotates the said combinedratchet-wheel and cam, and, the smaller radius of the cams comingopposite the rack-rods t the latter are drawn inward by the springs 75and t and caused to gear with the pegs I) on the wheels Z9 which arekeyed on the screws E The rotation of the latter racks in thenarrowing-rods b 19 as hereinafter described. A strong spring 41connected at one end to the lever v and at the other end to the frame ofthe machine, draws the lever 12 back to its normal position immediatelythe studs on the pattern-chain have left the said lever, therebydisengaging again the pawl 75 the said spring 11 being stronger than thespring 6 One of the levers t is, moreover, connected by a link with thebell-crank lever 70, and the reciprocating movement of the said .lever25 actuates thereby the pattern-wheel 70 at the same time that themachine effects an ordinary narrowing, unless the pawl 10 is thrown outof gear as, for example, when lacework is not required. An arm 20 isalso fixed on the shaft u and is provided with a pawl or clawker w,which engages with the teeth of a ratchet- .wheel 20 which is free torotate on a short shaft w secured to the end standard A. A cam-wheel walso mounted on the shaft 11) is arranged to be rotated by and with theratchet-wheel w w is a lever pivoted at 10 to the bracket rand havingarunnerw attached to its lower extremity for engaging with the patterncam or wheel to. The upper end of the said lever 10 is provided with anadjustable screw stop or stops w the ends of which engage with the twopawls r r in such a way as to prevent both pawls being in gear withtheir respective ratchet-wheels r r at the same time. On the saidratchet-wheel 10 being rotated, the lever 10 is oscillated by the cam 10and the two pawls r r are alternately put in and out of gear, therebyactuating the Jacquard cylinders in the manner hereinbefore described.The pawl w, that actuates the ratchet-wheel w", is put in and out ofgear by means of the studs on the pattern-chain. A bell-crank lever to",pivoted at 10 to the end standard A, is curved at its upper end, thecurved portion extending under th'e'said pawl w. The upper surface ofthe studs or lugs on the pattern-chain '0 encounters this lever w" andactuates it in such a manner as to cause the said lever to lift the pawlw out of gear when it is required not to reverse the motion of the Jacquard cylinders.

By unscrewing the thumb screws f, the lace-point barf is released andthe comb-bar a may then be raised, as shown in Fig. 9, so as to throwthe pins l out of action and to enable the narrowing-points to bebrought nearer the center of the sets of needles. To provide room forthe pins Z when thrown out of action, we omit one or more of the platesor lags Z thus forming a blank space. Moreover, we provide a lever f,Fig. 3, mounted on the rod f, and which engages with a stud r fixed inthe pawl 1". When the lace-point bar is rotated to throw the pins Z outof action, the said lever f disengages the pawl r, so that during thenarrowing of the toe, when lacework is not required, the Jacquardcylinders remain stationary.

In making a lace stocking or sock by means of our invention, the plainor upper part of the said stocking or sock is knitted in the usualmanner. The lace mechanism above described is then broughtinto actionand the lace-border from 1 to 2 in Fig. 17 is produced, during whichtime the Jacquard cylinders are rotated in one, direction only by thepawl 7". On the completion of the borderthe Jacquard cylinders areracked round four more times by the pawl 'r in the same direction, thusmaking the pattern from 2 to 3 in Fig. 17. The lugs on the chain thenthrow out the pawl r and throw in the pawl r which acts upon the wheel7", having teeth out to the pitch of four plates or lags, as shown inFig. 18. Thus as the lace appliance rises'it racks the Jacquardcylinders back to the position they were in after the completion of theborder. The lugs on the chain then throw out the pawl r and throw in thepawl 0", which again racks the Jacquard cylinders and thus repeats thepattern. This repeating of the pattern goes on until the work is knittedto the line 4 in Fig. 17, when, instead of the pawl 0 coming intoaction, the pawl r is allowed to continue its action until the next fourplates or lugs are reached, making the pattern from 4 to 5, Fig. 17. Thepawl 7' then comes into action and repeats the pattern in the samemanner as before, until the line 6 is reached. The pawl r is then keptin action until the work is knitted to the line 7. Then the pawl r againcomes into action, repeat ing the pattern between 6' and 7 until theline 8 is reached. The next plate or lug has no stops in it, thereforeplain work is knitted. The lever t then disengages the pawl 1", thusstopping the revolution of the Jacquard cyllnders and allowing the toeto be completed wlthout any pattern being produced thereon. For patternsout of the ordinary ruuthat is to say, for extraordinary patternsa Jacquard band Z of the ordinary construction maybe passed round thecylinders Z, as shown 1n Flg. 9, and made to operate the points Z in amanner that will be well understood.

In the modification of our invention shown in F1gs.14 and 15 thelace-points e are fixed in bell-crank levers e, pivoted at 2 to thecombbar e 6 are springs, one for each lever e, secured to the bosses awhich carry the combbar e The said springs act on the inner ends of thesaid levers in such a way as to keep the lace-points e downthat is tosay, to keep the lower ends of the levers e pressed home within thecomb-bar 6 In this modification the Jacquard cylinders are provided withprojecting pegs Z for operating the lacepo1nt levers instead of holes,as in the arrangement hereinbefore described. The said pegs are insertedin the holes provided for them in the cylinder plates or lags accordingto any arrangements, so as to produce any desired pattern. The leversare retained in their normal positions by the action of the said springs(2 immediately the Jacquard cyllnders are raised. By forming the springse of the curved shape shown we are enabled to 7 so depress the levers eas to bring their extremities into contact with the curved portion ofthe springs, as shown in Fig. 15, and the said levers are then placedout of the range of the cylinder-pegs Z or, in other words, the points eare placed out of action. We provide a bar 8 running the whole length ofthe machine underneath the inner arms of the levers e, by means of whichthe whole of the levers may be raised again and put into the workingposition at once; This bar is operated in a similar manner to the bar 5hereinbefore referred to.

Although we have herein described and shown our improvements as appliedto a knitting-machine known as a Oottons frame, it is obvious that oursaid improvements are also applicable to other machines.

What we claim is- 1. In a machine forthe manufacture of lace hosiery,.the combination, with an upright needle-frame, of a set of lace-pointsarranged above the needles and supported on a bar, bearings for saidbar, said bar being connected with a slide, and anintermittently-actuated pattern-wheel, the periphery of which bearsagainst two pins on the said slide and imparts endwise motion to thesaid set of lace-points alternately in either direct-ion to adjust thesame relatively to the work, substantially as hereinbefore described.

2. In a machine for the manufacture of lace hosiery, the combination,with an upright needle-frame, of a set of lace-points arranged above theneedles, a bar on which said points are supported, bearings for saidbar, a slide connected with said bar, an intermittentlyactuated patternwheel, the periphery of which bears against two pins on the said slideand imparts endwise motion to the said set' of lace points alternatelyin either' direction according to the pattern to be produced, apattern-chain, mechanism consisting of a Jacquard cylinder, and a bar 3supported by hangers, substantially as described, for putting thelace-points in and out of action as required, and mechanism forintermittently rotating the Jacquard cylinder, comprising ratchet-wheelsr r, pawls 1" r lever 111 camwheel to, ratchet-wheel n1 pawl 10, shaftu, arm 20, connecting pawl 20' with the shaft It, means for oscillatingthe shaft to, and a lever 20", adapted to lift pawl to out of gear withthe ratchet-wheel when it encounters the studs on the pattern-chain,substantially as described.

3. In a machine for the manufacture of lace hosiery, the combination,with an upright needle-frame, of aset of lace-points, arranged above theneedles and supported on a bar, bearings forsaid bar,said bar beingconnected with a slide, an intermittently-actuated pattern wheel, theperiphery of which bears against two'pins on the said slide and impartsendwise motion to the said set of lace-points ICO in either directionaccording to the pattern to be produced, mechanism consisting ofaJacquard pattern cylinder, and a bar 3 supported by hangers,substantially as above described, for putting the lace-points in and outof action as required, and means substantially as above described forintermittently rotating the said pattern-cylinder, substantially as andfor the purposes above specified.

4. The combination, with the lace-point bar fand the lace-points 6,carried thereby, of a fork f fixed on the said bar, a sliding block 71,having an arm h, engaging with the said fork f and having pins orprojections h h, a pattern-wheel Zc, arranged to rotate between the saidpins or projections, and means substantially such as above described forintermittently rotating the said pattern-wheel, whereby the said slidingblock and the bar f are moved endwise alternately in each direction,substantially as and for the purposes above specified.

5. In a machine for the manufacture of lace IIO hosiery, thecombination,with the lace-points,

of the automatically and intermittently rotated Jacquard cylinder,mechanism substantially as above described for moving said Jacquardcylinder toward and away from the lace points, and pawls r r andratchet-wheels r W, by which said cylinder is partially rotated in oneor otherdirection when it is moved toward and away from the lace-points,substantially as and for the purposes specified.

6. In a machine for the manufacture of lace hosiery, thecombination,with the lace-points, the pattern-cylinder, and means formoving the said cylinder to and from the said points, of a repeatingdevice consisting, essentially, of two ratchet mechanisms 1" r r r forthe forward and backward movement of the said cylinder, cam-and-ratchetmechanism w 10 w, the lever w", actuated thereby for displacing theparts 0" 1 an arm w, secured on a shaft to for actuating the pawl w, alever to" for disengaging the said pawl, and a patternchain forcontrolling the action of this lever, substantially as and for thepurposes above specified.

7. In a machine for the manufacture of lace hosiery, the combination ofthe slides e, car- HENRY CLARKE. THOMAS MAWBY.

Witnesses:

STEPHEN PLAKE,

16 Ann Street, Leicester. J. A. WARD,

6 Nichols Street, Leicester.

